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Caves · Elitist
EXERCISE 2 OF 86
Groove W -- Part W (a two-bar phrase)
13 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, PART AA
PART E
PART K
PART Q
PART W
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAQBHWAAS14+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caves on drums

145 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72, 76 and 80, and 4 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Caves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BH -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-13 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Caves?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Caves hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Caves?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED